Hope and Recovery: Part 1
Recently I was asked to write some quick reflections about hope and recovery for a German...
Integration of Physical and Behavioral Health
This week I gave a talk at a conference held by the The Center for Public Service...
Is Recovery a Dinosaur?
Is recovery going the way of the dinosaur? Is recovery-transformation an old idea that should...
Showing Up for Recovery: A meditation on hawks-in-winter
I often look to nature to find my fortitude and inspiration for recovery and wellness. I'm happy...
Pill Police?
You must be paranoid!
Or then again... Imagine being diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2012....
It's Not All In My Head: Stigma in medical settings
Recently I had to see a dental specialist to have a tooth repaired. As I sat in the waiting area...
Lead Shoes and Institutional Peonage
During my study of consumer/survivor/ex-patient history, I took these photographs at Vermont...
Institutional Rubber Stamps
There are small museums, all over the world, detailing the history of asylums. Throughout the...
The First Slave Admitted to the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum
In the 1990s, I did a lot of primary source research about the history of mental health care in...
Peer Staff as Disruptive Innovators
There is a tension at the heart of our work as peer staff. It is the tension between Love and...
CommonGround Guides
CommonGround Guides put recovery tools directly into the hands of the people who need them. Each Guide contains education, workbook style exercises, Personal Medicine Cards, tracking tools and reflection questions.
Work & the Dignity of Risk
Sometimes staff are reluctant to refer folks to Supported Employment and Education Specialists. In this E-Learning course, Pat Deegan will teach you a recovery-oriented framework for managing risk and supporting choice.
Recovery Library
The Hope. The Tools. The inspiration to recover after a diagnosis of mental illness. Recovery Library offers thousands of resources to support recovery and is available for individuals and programs.
Author
Pat Deegan
My partner and I founded a company run by and for people in recovery. The mission: To safeguard human dignity by bringing individual voice and choice to the center of the clinical care team. Toward this end I developed the CommonGround Program including Software and the Distressing Voices Simulation.
